Hackers target European Central Bank president

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Hackers target European Central Bank president
Unidentified hackers attempted to trick European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde into letting them open a messaging app account in her name by posing as former German chancellor Angela Merkel, a German source said. The plot was quickly foiled without any information being compromised, ...

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